Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Booklet - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is one of the six political foundations
in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Foundation’s main
task is to provide political education. It is close to the left party.
Since 1990, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has been active in
keeping with its eponym, Rosa Luxemburg and represents the
main current of democratic socialism with a deliberate international
focus. The Foundation considers itself committed to a
radical perspective of social processes and developments, and
works within the tradition of workers and women’s movements
as well as anti-fascism and anti-racism.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation,
whose most important body is the General Assembly.
Its work is supported by the dedication and commitment of
many volunteers nationwide.
With its work the Foundation promotes a critical analysis of society
and fosters networks of emancipatory activists and progressive
cultural approaches. It is active internationally in the field of
development co-operation and equal dialogue, and with the help
of the Archive of Democratic Socialism, it documents important
political events. Within the framework of its Scholarship Department,
the Foundation also provides grants to young scientists.
Just as the other political foundations, the Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation seeks to further develop the classical concept of political
education. However, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation here
emphasises a critical analysis of society as its central task, a
claim further underlined by its name.
Social change requires a reflective confrontation with today’s capitalist
society as a whole. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has set itself
the goal of developing alternative concepts and approaches for processes
of transformation which enable a more united and just society.
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